Popular Culture: Schooling and Everyday Life by Henry A. Giroux (English) Paperb

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It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organized by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society.

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Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, Popular Culture is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular culture with pedagogical practice. It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organized by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society. What emerges is a redefinition of the very notion of popular culture.

Author Biography

HENRY GIROUX, Professor and Scholar in Residence in the School of Education at Miami University, Ohio, is known internationally for his work in critical pedagogy and has published eleven books on the subject.ROGER SIMON is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He is currently working on his next book, Teaching Against the Grain: A Pedagogy of Possibility.

Table of Contents

Pedagogy, Popular Culture, and Public Life: An Introduction by Paulo Freire and Henry A. GirouxPopular Culture as a Pedagogy of Pleasure and Meaning by Henry A. Giroux and Roger I. SimonPedagogy and the Popular-Cultural-Commodity-Text by Paul SmithEducational Media, Ideology, and the Presentation of Knowledge through Popular Cultural Forms by Elizabeth EllsworthPlaying . . . Contra/Dictions, Empowerment, and Embodiment: Punk, Pedagogy, and Popular Cultural Forms by Philip CorriganPedagogy in the Present: Politics, Postmodernity, and the Popular by Lawrence GrossbergCurriculum Politics, Hegemony, and Strategies of Social Change by R.W. ConnellArt or Culture? An Inquiry by Paul WillisTelevangelism as Pedagogy and Cultural Politics by Peter McLaren and Richard SmithEngendering Couples: The Subject of Daytime Television by Mimi WhiteWorking-Class Identity and Celluloid Fantasies in the Electronic Age by Stanley AronowitzSchooling, Popular Culture, and A Pedagogy of Possibility by Henry A. Giroux and Roger I. SimonIndex

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This volume looks at televangelism, punk culture, the music of Bruce Springsteen, films produced for classroom use, and other artifacts of popular culture in order to turn the terrain most familiar to students into a critical literacy leading to 'moral resonsibility through forms of public leadership.' ... an ambitious and worthy project that is theoretically provocative and offers instructive readings of a number of cultural texts that index popular and adolescent norms. Harvard Educational Review

Long Description

Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, Popular Culture is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular culture with pedagogical practice. It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organized by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society. What emerges is a redefinition of the very notion of popular culture.

Promotional "Headline"

This volume looks at televangelism, punk culture, the music of Bruce Springsteen, films produced for classroom use, and other artifacts of popular culture in order to turn the terrain most familiar to students into a critical literacy leading to 'moral resonsibility through forms of public leadership.' . . . an ambitious and worthy project that is theoretically provocative and offers instructive readings of a number of cultural texts that index popular and adolescent norms. Harvard Educational Review

Details ISBN0897891864 Author Roger Simon Pages 256 Series Critical Studies in Education Language English ISBN-10 0897891864 ISBN-13 9780897891868 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 1989 Country of Publication United States Short Title POPULAR CULTURE Place of Publication Westport Subtitle Schooling and Everyday Life Residence PA, US Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc DOI 10.1604/9780897891868 UK Release Date 1989-07-28 NZ Release Date 1989-07-28 US Release Date 1989-07-28 Audience Age 7-17 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Publication Date 1989-07-28 Alternative 9780897891875 DEWEY 306 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 1989-07-27 We've got this

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